DeadHeads for Obama

A friend of the Dead is a friend of... theirs:

Members of the Grateful Dead will host a get out the vote concert in support of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday, February 4th at The Warfield Theatre in San Francisco....

This will mark the first time that the members of the legendary band have performed together since 2004. They have agreed to reunite for this one-time-only event in order to lend support to Senator Obama leading into the crucial “Super- Tuesday” series of primaries held on Tuesday, February 5th.

This should tip several hundred zillion* tuned-in, turned-on Bay Area and Santa Cruz voters into the Obama camp. Of course, without Bob Weir and Phil Lesh behind him, those people would have probably either stayed home written in Ralph Nader, so it's only half the coup it might've been. But still!

*=this may be a slight over-estimation.